Government & Politics
Tactical coverage of politics, usually from inside the Beltway.
- Tonight’s Debate: A Labor of Love for Democratic Candidates Bryan O'Keefe 08/07/2007
- The Democratic field is unusually in tune with organized labor—but union leaders are playing hard to get.
- Trading Cubans for Corn Clinton J. Woods and William F. Collins 08/06/2007
- Lifting the embargo could help us move beyond the current regime of domestic agricultural subsidies.
- Holland Puts an Entitlement on a Diet Jurgen Reinhoudt 08/01/2007
- The reforms could be emulated elsewhere, with due care.
- A Telling Letter from Russia Igor Khrestin and Kara Flook 07/31/2007
- A popular neo-Soviet youth movement in Russia presages tough times for the bilateral relationship.
- A Bridge to Traffic Reduction Jordan Fabian 07/31/2007
- Toll lanes can help give quicker commutes to those who value them most.
- How Governments Compete Jurgen Reinhoudt 07/30/2007
- A new book offers an informative overview of the most important ways governments help, or hurt, their national economies.
- Do Powerful Economic Reforms Require Powerful States? Jurgen Reinhoudt 07/26/2007
- A new anthology says growing government power actually helped Europe reform its welfare states.
- The Twisted Logic of Stadium Construction Trevor Bothwell 07/25/2007
- A new minor league ballpark, not yet constructed, is already teaching some basic economics—if anyone pays attention.
- Oedipus Child Elise Passamani 07/25/2007
- When children are born motherless, problems await.
- Winds of Reform in France Jurgen Reinhoudt 07/23/2007
- The French Parliament is making big changes, thanks to a philosophical shift at the top.